serve to a large number of clients, extra
serve to a large number of clients, extra servers have to be used. For ondemand serving, they can be added in parallel, but for live streams a different architecture is used to save network resources. A relay server splits the live streams downstream, so what starts as a single live stream from the encoder fans out like the branches of a tree. Take the example of a CEO s webcast from the headquarters on the west coast to two other remote sites on the south and east coasts. Stream serving 219 web page web server pointer link to metafile HYPERLINK starts player or plugin player requests media clip SUCCESS! http://address/filename.ram pointer metafile or redirector rtsp rtp http http streaming server plug -in plug -in plug -in clip 1 2 3 4 5 6 rtsp://address/clipname.rm Figure 11.7 Linking to streaming media.
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